Nancy Sánchez-Tarragó and J. Carlos Fernández-Molina, The open access movement and Cuban health research work: an author survey, Health Information & Libraries Journal, October 11, 2009. Only this abstract is OA, at least so far: See also our past post on the authors' previous study.
User needs study on Open Access Book, OAPEN Newsletter, October 2009.
International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers, Growth for STM publishers in 2008, press release, October 13, 2009. Comment. It's only paradoxical if one ignores the context.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced yesterday that the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson. Ostrom was recognized "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons". Ostrom's research has touched on many types of commons, knowledge among them.
I'm out today for the Columbus Day federal holiday. See you tomorrow!
The Fedora Commons repository software released a "Getting Started with Fedora" guide. BioMed Central's OA journal BMC Medical Genomics has been accepted for tracking by Thompson Reuters and will get its first impact factor in June 2010.
Here's more of what to expect for the upcoming international Open Access Week (October 19-23, 2009): SPARC is hosting a pre-OA Week Webcast on engaging university administrators on October 13. SHERPA is hosting a contest for OA-inspired haiku. Entries are due October 16. OASPA is hosting a Webinar with 5 OA publishers. The Electronic Green Journal, an early OA journal, will unveil a new Web interface.
Carol Minton Morris, Announcing the DuraSpace/SPARC OA Week Contest Winners, DuraSpace Blog, October 8, 2009. See also our past post on the contest.
John Dupuis, Open Access Policy for York University Librarians and Archivists, Confessions of a Science Librarian, October 8, 2009.
SPARC, New SPARC guide reviews income models for supporting open-access journals, press release, October 8, 2009.
The DSpace repository software is now used in more than 700 installations worldwide. The Austrian Science Fund announced new grants to support the publication of OA books. An editorial in a student newspaper at Georgetown University calls on the school to adopt an OA mandate. Dorothea Salo says if your IR isn't working out, shut it down and outsource.